Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf may have been killed

THERE are "credible" reports Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf may have been killed in Syria alongside two of his young sons.

The Federal Government has received information that Sharrouf and his sons, Abdullah, 12 and Zarqawi, 11, were killed in a coalition air strike on 11 August close to the Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, according to the ABC's 730program.

It's believed Sharrouf's brother identified the bodies and pictures of the corpses have been shared among Australia's jihadist community.